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The Ecosystems Processes and Function (EPF) area is to support and advance a highly collaborative, competitively funded research program that applies ecosystem level knowledge to focal questions about the ecology and conservation of tropical organisms and ecosystems. The continued development of a highly competitive research program in ecosystems processes and function is critical to the scholarship, training and educational objectives of the Center for Tropical Applied Ecology and Conservation.